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Natalie Gelman - It​’​s a Hard Life Wherever You Go

from Precious to Me by The Blue Élan Family

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lyrics

I’m a backseat driver from America 
We drive to the left on Falls Road 
And the man at the wheel's name is Seamus 
We pass a child on the corner he knows 
 
And Seamus says, "Now, what chance has that kid got?" 
I say from the back, "I don't know." 
He says, "There's barbed wire at all of these exits 
And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go." 
 
Cause It's a hard life  
Hard life  
A very hard life  
A hard life wherever you go  
And if we poison our children with hatred  
Then, the hard life is all that they'll know  
And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go  
 
A cafeteria line in Chicago 
The fat man in front of me 
Is calling black people trash to his children 
But he's the only trash here I see 
 
And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood 
In the night when his children should sleep 
But, they’ll slip to their windows and they’ll see him 
And they’ll think that white hood's all they need 
 
Cause It's a hard life  
Hard life  
A very hard life  
A hard life wherever you go  
And if we poison our children with hatred  
Then a hard life is all that they'll know  
And there ain't no place in Chicago for those kids to go 
 
It’s a hard life 
 
I was a child in the sixties 
When dreams could be held through TV 
With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther 
And I believed, I believed, I believed 
 
Now, a backseat driver from America 
I am not at the wheel of control 
And I am guilty, I am war, I am the root of all evil 
Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road 
 
Cause It's a hard life  
Hard life  
A very hard life  
A hard life wherever you go  
And if we poison our children with hatred  
Then, a hard life is all that they'll know  
And there ain't no place in this world for those kids to go 
Cause It's a hard life wherever you go  

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from Precious to Me, released March 17, 2023
Produced by: Kirk Pasich, Colin Devlin
Written by: NANCI CAROLINE GRIFFITH

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